The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-07-01

ed purposes, and the people OF st. Olalrs.
vile arc more indebted to him for the 70.
tention OF the county seat than to any
other person, Upon that subject he was
indelatigable. He wao married three times,
first to Agnes A. kirkwood, in 1885; next
TO Agnes Parker, In 1858, and then 10
Mary j. Douglass, In 1867. In the three
families there weso nineteen children,
fourteen OF which are still living,
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THROUGH THE STATE.
Accidents aud. Incidents In West yirglnia
$.#S.5 i5. and Vicinity. 7Fr
Z Nicholas county has only six colored
citizsns over 81 years Of age, aud 1908
white eitizeha. 4. , B
Senator John E. kenna will deliver the
annual address before the graduating class
Of Concord, Normal School, at their Com
mencement, August 0. III iefS
Francis Murphy, the great temperance
apostle, has been engaged 10 deliver tho
addrees on the big Fourth OF July that
Canonaburg Is going to celebrate. .ft
The West Virginia Transportation Com.
psny, Of Parkersburg, has ceased to opsr-
ate the Laurel Fork and Sand Hill rail-
road. What will DO done with the road
remains to be eeen. 4
The shepherdatown Register says tina,
William H. Faymsn, OF New York, will
erect a GUNNER hotel on tho Shepherd
farm recently bought by him, three milee
north Of Shepherdstown, on tho Potomac
river. y, & L. s. / & S. Z, E},l H n.
The Washington, Pa, Morning Rerit,o Ia
not being published this week. The office
10 being moved and q new dress Is being
received. The publishers promise q
"daisy" paper when 1t nhall make its 10.
appearance. IA; iEjS .gNs5
The following choice bit Of mountain
journalism Is taken from tho Tucker.
Pioneer: "The sublime spectacle OF coun.
ty court in session with the clerk ss drunk
as bilt owl was TO be aeen last week.
That's Tucker county ring.tailed Democ-
racy."
An effort is being made to introduce tho
Westinghouse incandescent light system
in Fairmont. Over ono hundred lights
have been uubscribed for by citizens, aud
a proposition Ia to be made tho Council
relative to using the lights in the etreets
in place Of the present aarius sput.ering
Kerosene. .4ti
The Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad having
lost the Pittsburgh & Western line, which
was cold at judicial sale for 81 ,00O,O0O to
an Independent company last week, the
old Henpfeld project may be revived
and the projected line to cross at Coal
Centre be completed Elisabeth Herald.
Hon. D. B. Lpcaa was invited to NEE.
the R. E. Lee, Camp OF Confederate Vet
Grams ct Washington, and accompany
them on their recent excursion to Boston,
as their guest and spokesman, but was
obliged to decline, owing to his engage
ment to address the State Normal school,
at Glenville. ,z.3p =
The Moun1sviile Herald says: "Goyer.
nor Wilson has an excellent opportunity
to do just and merciful act by pardoning
John L. Heckmer. There has always been
more or less mystery surrounding the case
---besides there ia no excuse in the world
tor keeping a man away from his family
and Furnishing him while his lie is vast
ing away by inches" s. s.
A few nights since thieves entered the
house of Thomss Blake, on Bowrnsn'e
ridge, Marshall county, chloroformed the
family and raneacked the house. Money
was extracted from between ths bedding
on which the husband and wife we're
sleeping. The family were SO heavily
drugsed that they did not wake until
nearly noon the next day, is
@. B. Eauns, q well.to.do merchan,
whoae place OF business is one OF the
largeEt on Broadway, Nav York, makes it
practice to arrive in JefIersou cnnntv
this State, every Sunday morning, for the
purpoae Of spending twelve hours with his
venerable and invalid mother. He re-
turns IN time Tor business Monday morn.
ing. This is an example Of devotion
worthy Of emulation,
At the Washington, Pa, Fair, septem.
Der 10 and ID, grand field trial will ba
held by the Collie Club OF America. Tho
following directions will govern: In the
driving trials the dog starts from the shep.
herd or handler, goea to three ebesn.
WHICH gre about 100 yards distant, drives
them around circular course marked ont
by poets and finally peus them by driving
them between two upright posts or hur-
dies. The shepherd must remain in the
came place and direct his dog from there,
The sa.called petriied snakeg found In
the mines o. Shaw, Mineral county, con.
corning which ee7eral sensational fepor,a
have recently been published, now turn
out to be instead OF q petriGcation Of AMI.
nal life fossil plant OF carboni(e.ous age.
paleozoic time class, phenosan; order
gymnosperm; GENTS, atfgnariGe. Thew
are quito a common fossil, being found in
the under:clays Of the coal measuree,
They grew as stout Stems, from two 10 fly.
Or more inchea thick and from twol-e To
thirty feet nigh, having over III. tIe surlace
distinct rounded puncsures or depressiona
The specimens found are very fine ones,
A Ne. York gentleman named Prentice
Is experimenting the sinking Of a paa
we'll at Huntingdon, the entire depth Of
which at present Is 800 feet. Gas ia al.
ready escaping from the hole. The com.
pany represented by Prentice is said to be-
large one, and he intimates that II will
order at least ten test wells put down in
that locality. One Is to be commenced
soon at ,auyandotte. Several wells will
ne put down in Putnam county. The par.
Ties aeen1 to be sanguine OF obtaining oil
IN that vicinity, and should they be- sue.
cessfrl, the ksnawha valley will indeed
boom and blossom as the rose The coal
interests, the ire clay, the timber inter-
ests, and then the oil intereste, ought to |
make Putnam county lively during the
next few years. a b -
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fountain that IL 70 be- 4. Isl, -
Mr.. lev. Saiielle yessesda. received word that
ais mother was lying al the point oil death. 1r